It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
 
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

(Sherlock Holmes)

• Reshafim lies in the Valley of Beit Shean, a few kilometers to the south of that town
• The kibbutz was founded in 1944 at Kiriat Haim and erected in Ashrafieh in 1948.
• The name Reshafim means "sparks" and was derived from Ashrafieh, but refers also to the the fact that a considerable part of the founders were survivors of the Holocaust, rishfei hashoah (sparks from the Holocaust)
• About 420 people live on the kibbutz, most of them originally from European countries, but a considerable number from around the Mediterranean and South America, a true kibbutz galuiot, a gathering of the diaspora.
• Practically all inhabitants are not religious and the kibbutz does not provide religious services.
• It is a so-called "renewed" kibbutz, where practically everything but the agricultural land and the means of production have been privatized. To all intents and purposes it is a moshav shitufi.

But these facts are not enough to understand the people and their community. Further probing is needed and these are the questions
about us
an investigator has to find answers to: